We visited Cathy's neice Amanda and her partner Jonathan and his folks who run a trucking business at Geeveston on the Huon River south of Hobart. Geeveston has some very lifelike huon pine carvings so Cathy befriended one of them. We were overwhelmed by the hospitalty of Pam and Blue (David) Price and came away with enough Atlantic Salmon to keep us going for a month.
Cathy's brother Mal was also visiting and he took us to the local forestry timber yard to see a massive huon pine log that had been recovered from a nearby river. This part of the log is going to Derent River to be carved into a large scuplture.
We did a day trip to Cockle Creek on Recherce Bay which is as far south as you can drive in Australia - had our photo taken with the whale sculpture at the end of the road. For once it was dry and sunny - a rare treat in this part of the world.
From Geeveston we went to Port Arthur in the pouring rain which is what we have come to expect at least every other day. We bush camped in the Tasman National Park at Fortescue Bay - a passing rock kindly offered to take our photo.
We spent a whole day touring the prison - could have spent a lot more time there but it would have meant stealing a loaf of bread.
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